The early pioneers and pioneer events of the state of Illinois including personal recollections of the writer; of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson and Peter Cartwright, together with a brief autobiography of the writer (1899)
Author: Ross, Harvey Lee, 1817-1907
Subject: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845; Cartwright, Peter, 1785-1872; Pioneers -- Illinois; Illinois -- Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Chicago, Eastman Brothers
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 1090486
Digitizing sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Book contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Collection: americana
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Early history of Fulton Co Illinois and the great Abraham Lincoln, among others.
The author came to Fulton County Illinois in 1820 and lived the great majority of his life there, having moved to California at the time the book was published. He is a great story teller, sharp as a tack in his 81st year when this book was written/updated. The book starts off with articles he wrote for the local Futon Newspaper telling it's citizens of the early days of the county, remembering most ocurrances and people that influenced the county and state. He talks of the thousands of Indians in the state most of whom were peaceful and friends. The Black Hawk war was an abberation as it was not the norm for the Indian behavior in the land they loved so well. The book talks of the rough life early pioneers faced, the different tye of people inhabiting the area, the multitude of game and plentiful land that abounded there when military tracts of land given to soldiers from the War of 1812 began to settle or sell their grants. His father was an industrious man starting out with farming and moving into other enterprises. The author did the same, helping with farming, trapping, mail carrier, ferryboat operator, store cler, hotel owner and other activities that could earn him money. This book really gives you the real story of the incredible hardship people faced and despite that they had enduring friendship and welcoming hospitality. He personally knew Abe Lincoln for many years before he became president, having met him through his mail carrying activities when Lincoln was a store clerk and postman. The down home honest recollections of Lincoln brings the man into a new perspective and irradicates many of the lies told by Lincoln's law partner in later years. I thought this was a great book and one I could hardly stop reading once I started. I think you will find it enjoyable and truthful to it's core!
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